In the 19th century, the sky already bore the marks of our industrial era. Long before gasoline engines, the atmosphere was ...

The amount of methane added to the atmosphere in the past decade also corresponds to studies that show fracking operations leak, vent, or flare between 2 and 6 percent of the gas produced, Howarth ...

Clear signs that humans were affecting Earth’s climate could have been detected as early as 1885 if late-19th-century ...

Explore the layers of the atmosphere depicted to scale, including the Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, ...

An international research collaboration, including scientists from the Institute of Climate and Energy Systems - Stratosphere ...

If humankind were to fall into the “moral hazard” trap, we would be actively choosing to add sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere for potentially a century without ever planning to quit deployment.

A small, multi-institutional team of climate scientists has found evidence that human-caused impacts on the stratosphere ...

The human fingerprint on global warming was likely evident in Earth’s atmosphere far earlier than previously thought—even ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered that a hazy sky over frozen Pluto is helping to cool the dwarf planet's ...

Chris writes: “The plan is to send tiny samples into the stratosphere in specially designed gondolas attached to balloons. The gondolas will later be recovered, so that the effect of the stratosphere ...

A new study, published in Nature, shows that the atmosphere’s growing thirst for water is making droughts more severe, even in places where rainfall has stayed the same. The paper details how this ...